Let me be honest with you my friends, I don't like history but I'm quite sure that you understand it. So let's start and end it quickly without making you bored. What I'm going to write about is historical development of CALL. I can here you saying "What's that?". It is Computer Assisted Language Learning which is what we use everyday in our education life. Let's take a quick look at its' development through years;
- In the 1960s it was quite easy to use. Because of Behaviourism the first program only wanted for you to chose one of two answers.
- In the 1970s it changed because there was a new idea. Communicative Approach came in and took down the Behaviouristic Approach. Because to most people, and to me, meaning focused learning was better than habit formation learning.
- In the 1980s the emergence of microcomputers emphesized the communicative use of the language.
- Starting from the 1990s and now Integrative CALL takes place. Because of the rapid use of the internet, language programs allow students to do a reading assignment in the target language, use a dictionary or study grammar and pronunciation.
I hope you enjoyed it. Before leaving I'm going to leave a timeline here so you can find some shorter information in there. Have a beautiful day!
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